At Furman U., an Uncommon Cottage

U. of Maine at Farmington Now open for tours: Furman U’s Cliffs Cottage was built with local, sustainable, and energy efficient materials. (Photo by Jeremy Fleming)

The Cliffs Cottage at Furman University, built with the magazine Southern Living, certainly is dreamy. But as a sustainable model home, it will also be a living laboratory for green building — a place where students and professors can learn about the latest materials and techniques in construction. You can read a story about the Cliffs Cottage in the latest edition of The Chronicle, and you can see a slideshow with lots of pictures of the house.